Serving as a content provider

If you’re a content creator or streaming service looking to showcase your VR content in Volumetric format, the Touchly VR app is a great platform to do so.

Some key aspects:

• This method gives complete control to the provider. You’re required to choose where and how the content is hosted, the metadata, etc.

• We don’t get any data access. The application reads the information necessary for displaying your content directly.

• Users needs to manually add the provider inside the application.

Summary

This is how it works:

• The content provider creates a .json file in the required format (with all the necessary information) and hosts it somewhere like AWS S3, Azure or his own website.

• The user gets the link to that .json copied to the clipboard in their device, ideally through the providers' website.

• After opening the Touchly App, a button to add the provider from clipboard will appear automatically.

• Done! Now all content should be available to watch in the app.

JSON format guide

Here is an example file, that has two example Videos in it.

{
      "name": "Example Provider",
    "VideoInfo": [
    {
      "name": "My Video Name 1",
      "author": "John Doe",
 "category": "Animals",
      "videoUrl": "https://my.hosting.com/Videos/video1.mp4",
 "thumbnailUrl": "https://my.hosting.com/Thumbnails/video1thumbnail.PNG",
      "playbackMode": "Dynamic",
      "holoWidth": 0.09851014,
      "holoCenter": 0.864569,
      "holoSmoothing": 0.03
    },
    {
      "name": "My Video Name 2",
      "author": "John Doe",
 "category": "Sports",
      "videoUrl": "https://my.hosting.com/Videos/video2.mp4",
      "thumbnailUrl": "https://my.hosting.com/Thumbnails/video2thumbnail.PNG",
      "playbackMode": "Passthrough",
      "holoWidth": 0.01,
      "holoCenter": 0.961237,
      "holoSmoothing": 0.03
    }]
}

The information that needs to be provided is the following:

• Name: Name of the provider shown in-app.

• VideoInfo: Information for each video to include, described here:

VideoInfo:

• Name: Name of the video.

• Thumbnail URL: Should be a downloadable link to a square 256x256 thumbnail.

• Video streaming/download URL: HLS and DASH streaming is also supported.

• Author (optional): Is displayed under the name.

• Category (optional).

• Default playback mode: Dynamic, Static or Passthrough.

• HoloWidth, HoloCenter, HoloSmoothing (optional): Settings for passthrough mode, so that the most important subjects are visible in passthrough mode.